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  • 26 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

What would Aristotle think about self-driving cars? As the abilities of artificial intelligence systems to automate complex tasks accelerate, warnings about the dangers of outsourcing life-and-death decisions to machines are pumping the... View Details
Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology
  • March 2025 (Revised May 2025)
  • Case

Xfund and Sam Altman: Finding Harvard's Best Generative AI Founders

By: Suraj Srinivasan
On May 1, 2024, Xfund Managing Partners Patrick Chung and Brandon Farwell, hosted a high-stakes venture pitch session designed to select one startup for a minimum $100,000 investment. This “Xperiment Stake” competition, dedicated to startups in the Generative AI... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Venture Capital; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Competition; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Short Takes

altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level managers agreed that what they View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross

    Levels of Meaning

    courses were even offered at HBS. But I decided to take Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (EGC) and The Coming of Managerial Capitalism because I wanted to balance “hard skills” courses with classes that broadened my perspective on the business world. In my RC... View Details
    • 17 Feb 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

    complex job duties. When it comes to the kind of hiring decisions the researchers looked at in the study, however, it may be time to concede there are some things machines simply do better than humans. “It’s natural for people to think... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment
    • Web

    Photographs & Prints | Baker Library

    cards, posters, and paper currency. Many of the photographs and prints have been digitized and are available in HOLLIS Images , Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. Highlights Industrial Life Photograph Collection Photographs illustrating the interaction of... View Details
    • Web

    Greg Lipstein Archives | Social Enterprise

    Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Machine Learning for Social Impact Greg Lipstein 21 Dec... View Details
    • 19 Nov 2019
    • Op-Ed

    Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

    Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence, and machine View Details
    Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services
    • 06 Aug 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

    apprentice? Probably, but it will take time and practice to learn all the tricks and perfect the art, making a lot of mistakes along the way. Yet there are machines that do produce all kinds of glass objects... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
    • Web

    HBS - From The Dean

    dynamism of our campus while building on the knowledge and skills we had gained in hybrid learning and remote work. Our new normal will be to take what we’ve always done well—teaching and research—and infuse it with new tools and... View Details
    • January 2025
    • Supplement

    The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (B)

    By: Tsedal Neeley, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
    Pre-abstract: This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the (B) Case videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

    Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
    Keywords: Diagnostics; Organization Design; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Success; Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • January 2025
    • Case

    The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation (A)

    By: Tsedal Neeley, Levi Stroud, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
    Pre-abstract: This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the (B) Case videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

    Abstract: Florian Hillen, co-founder... View Details
    Keywords: Diagnostics; Organization Design; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Success; Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 05 Aug 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

    capitalization), one that defied the old rules for productivity, income increases, and economic growth. We are told by widely-quoted scholars such as Erik Brynholfsson and Andrew McAfee that innovation and new information technologies are creating a "second View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    Embracing Digital Transformation

    Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan Leaders today, in every sector and around the world, are grappling with the opportunities and challenges of digital innovation—from artificial intelligence to machine View Details
    • Career Coach

    Yiwei Zhao

    company, where she gained insights into machine learning development cycles. She can help students understand how tech companies of different stages recruit, what it’s like to build a career in tech, and how... View Details
    • 18 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

    and outcomes on a broad scale. Before HBS, Somani spent 10 years in the industry, managing software development teams building machine learning platforms at Oracle and Amazon Alexa. She holds bachelor's and... View Details
    • 02 Apr 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

    "as part of a small team building a new company ... the time we spend together (as opposed to the day per week that she and her colleagues telecommute) ... is the most valuable." Jack Downey makes the case for the doubters: "Humans are social animals who... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 09 Dec 2015
    • Research Event

    How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

    predict demand and set prices to maximize revenue of products that have no historical sales data? To that end, they set out to develop a pricing decision support tool that would use existing data to maximize revenue on new products. The researchers used View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories
    • May 2025
    • Teaching Note

    The VideaHealth AI Factory: CEO Florian Hillen on Speed, Scale, and Innovation

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 425-720. Florian Hillen, co-founder and CEO of VideaHealth, a startup using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect dental conditions on x-rays, spent the early years of his company laying the groundwork for an AI factory. This AI factory,... View Details
    Keywords: Diagnostics; Organization Design; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Success; Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 28 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching

    scary, but it was also incredibly fun—something that I attributed largely to the case method (and Section I!). It’s exciting to see where the class discussion will go, and witness section mates learning from each other. The case method is... View Details